Pan Qi, Losick Richard
Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Harvard University, 16 Divinity Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA.
J Bacteriol. 2003 Sep;185(17):5275-8. doi: 10.1128/JB.185.17.5275-5278.2003.
Regulation of the cell-specific transcription factor sigma(F) in the spore-forming bacterium Bacillus subtilis involves the antisigma factor SpoIIAB. Contributing to the activation of sigma(F) is the degradation of SpoIIAB in a manner that depends on the protease ClpCP. Here we show that the three residues (LCN) located at the extreme C terminus of SpoIIAB are both necessary and sufficient for this degradation. We also report that the use of the LCN extension as a degradation signal for ClpCP is unique to SpoIIAB.
在形成芽孢的细菌枯草芽孢杆菌中,细胞特异性转录因子σ(F)的调控涉及抗σ因子SpoIIAB。SpoIIAB以依赖蛋白酶ClpCP的方式降解,这有助于σ(F)的激活。我们在此表明,位于SpoIIAB极端C末端的三个残基(LCN)对于这种降解既是必需的也是充分的。我们还报告说,将LCN延伸用作ClpCP的降解信号是SpoIIAB所特有的。